The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-14
CHATHAM COUNTY BILLS.
Providing for Board Of Assessors and
for Reducing Fees of the Ordinary.

PROVIDING for Board or Assessors ana
for Reducing Fees of the Ordinary.
Among the bills introduced into the Legis-
lature by Capt. Gordon, the following, re-
lating to Chatham county, are very import
ant. One of the bills provides that the
grand jury of the Superior Court of Chat
ham county and the Mayor and Aldermen
of the city of Savannah shall select four up
right, intelligent aud experienced citizens,
three of whom shall be resident freeholders
of the city of Savannah and one freebooter
residing in the county, not within
the limits of Savannah, who shall constitute
a board of assessors for the county Inc
persons elected shall, before entering upon
the discharge of the duties of their Office,
take before the Board of Commissioners an
oath to faithfully and impartially discharge
the duties of their office; they shall receive
the compensation OF s. per day while ac-
tually engaged in the discharge or their
duties, to be paid by the county upon the
warrant of the Board of County Commits
sioners. The persons constituting the board
of assessors shall be elected as follows: The
grand jury of the Superior Court shall, at
the March term next after the passage or
this act, and annually thereafter as their
terms expire, elect three of said assessors,
one of whom shall reside in the county out
side of Savannah, and whose terms of ser
vice shall be respectively one, two and three
years; the fourth assessor herein provided
for shall be elected by the Mayor and Alder
men of Savannah on or before April l next
after the passage of this act and annually
thereafter.
1t shall be the duty of the Board of As
SCISSORS to meet in the office of the Receiver
of Tax Returns on the first Monday in May
of each year, and from day to day, and
from time to time, as the duties of their
office may require.
1t shall be the duty of the Board of AS
SCISSORS to review all returns of real and per
sonal property made to the Receiver of Tax
Returns; and whenever any person or per-
sons or body corporate, whose duty it Is to
make tax returns to said receiver of any
species, kind or description of property that
is taxed, or intended to be taxed, by the
lrws of Georgia, shall fail to return the
whole, or any part thereof, the said Board
of Assessors shall proceed to assess the prop
erty of all and every such defaulting per
son or persons or body corporate, at such an
amount as in their Judgment is just and
equitable on the best and most reliable in
formation to be obtained.
1t shall be the duty of the Board of AS
SCISSORS, and they are authorized and re-
quired in all cases in which they have good
reason to believe that full and complete re-
turns have not been made by any person or
persons or body corporate, to notify such
the Receiver Of Tax Returns, to ap-
pear at his Office, for the purpose of
amending his, her or their returns; and in
default of such appearance and failure to
answer as required, such person or persons
or body corporate shall be subject to the
same penalty as is prescribed by law for
failure to make tax returns.
The Receiver of Tax Returns shall be Sec
rotary of the Board of Assessors, and shall
furnish to the board all information in his
power regarding each and every return, and
also the names of every person he may
know who has failed to make returns as re-
quired by law. The compensation of said
Tax Receiver shall be the same as now
allowed him by law.
The Receiver of Tax Returns shall not en-
ter upon the tax digest any return until the
same has been approved by said board OF
assessors. Any person or persons or body
corporate dissatisfied with his or their
assessment, or whose return has been refused
by the receiver, shall have the right and
privilege of appearing before the board of
assessors and of being heard, and the board
shall receive the return if it be correct, or
shall proceed to alter, correct or amend the
assessment complained of as the case may
be, so as to make it conform to the truth.
oRDINARY's FEES.
This bill provides that so much of an act
entitled IAN act to amend the act regu-
lating the tavern license in this State, APP
proved Dec Is, 1909, so far as the same re-
lates to the county of Wilcox, and to define
the fees of the Ordinary of Chatham county
in this State" as prescribed and established,
the fees of said Ordinary of Chatham county
be repealed.
1t further provides that from and after
the passage of this act the fees of the Ordi-
nary of the county of Chatham shall be the
same as now allowed Ordinaries in this
State under section 1904 of the Code of
Georgia of 1928, and his said fees shall be
the same as are now prescribed in said sec
ton of the Code of Georgia.